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watch it over and over and over... fascinating

posted 10 years ago by LTUM
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million things to say about this doc. first saw it right when it was fresh, probably 2002. have seen it tons of times thru the years. it fascinates me on so many levels. it's, i dunno, it just hits in the gut.

there's lots of curious things about this movie:

it's a peek into that amazing period when the web was fresh and new and people's dreams were huge, wide open.

it also gives a taste of the hope and dreams people in their twenties carry with them. i find that interesting.

it has that existential 'time frozen forever' vibe that i love so well.

the personalities are appealing, and it's edited well with good pace so there's never a dull moment. great fly on the wall feel too, btw

i will say more later i'm sure....

i wonder where they all are now. you can't help but get attached

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[–] liquidchaoss 10 years ago

Yeah I'm watching it right now. Love it, reminds me of the good ol days where getting a job was simple and anyone with an idea on a piece of paper could walk into a room of investors and walk out with a 100 million dollar investment. I was part of a dotcom during the dotcom boom, Jamcracker. It was a lot of fun and it helped my career. It sucked that the whole idea of this documentary was to show the start up become a big successful company, but instead show the rise and fall but that is how it was mostly in the dotcom boom. A lot of ideas started by small groups of friends who had success then utterly failed when the bubble burst. Not only did it suck then it sucks now because when the bubble burst it re-shaped how businesses and investors work to this day.

[–] LTUM 10 years ago

well said.

honored to talk to someone who was there during that time :)

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"You are literally too stupid to insult."

"Thank you."

[–] LTUM 10 years ago

watching it again. fascinating.

i would like to hear updates on 'where they are now' tom and kaleil mainly. i know the brian guy died in the fire.

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[–] sissywillard 10 years ago

startup.com is truly a slice of fozen time.
all that we take for granted today in 2014 was not so just 13 years ago. In the beginning of the film Kaliel asks a couple of people "are you on the Internet at all?" And one guy even said no...hahaha. And the fact that the search engine they used back then could not figure out how to give them correct information on the word 'park' HA!

it's just an awesome slice of frozen time.

[–] LTUM 10 years ago

takes us back to the early days of the web. one of the best docs made

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[–] vincent-27 8 years ago

I was a web developer and lived through it, VC funding, huge growth, implosion, the whole bit. It was quite the rollercoaster. I can tell you exactly what that "search engine" was doing, it was probably only searching their contacts in the database. Obviously it was not properly scoped or QA'd, someone just made sure it returned something somewhat relevant, but wasn't really a search engine, it was the equivalent of searching your contacts in outlook.

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